What's the Rush?
Why IT Leaders Prioritise Microsoft 365 Security Training Before Q4
Q4 means systems under strain – audits, end-of-year, seasonal demand, leave cover, and increasing cyber threats...
Would you want your IT team to need training whilst managing critical Microsoft 365 infrastructure, during periods of high-alert? That's one reason why the UK's IT managers have begun to upskill their teams - they do it now to stay ahead.
Read on to find out about the 3 key themes we hear from IT teams who regularly book courses in the summer months, and the 4 top courses booked in 2025.
IT Manager Feedback:
"Skills Gaps Create Risk"
Microsoft 365 is powerful – but misconfigured endpoints or outdated access rules leave holes in your defences. These issues often go unnoticed until it's too late.
"Threats Peak Later in the Year"
With higher user activity, reduced team capacity and change freezes looming, now is the time to build capability – not when you're firefighting.
"Microsoft Never Stops Evolving"
From Intune updates to Sentinel enhancements, Azure improvements, to Security advances - Microsoft 365 changes fast. Training your team now ensures you’re not caught out.
Critical Areas of Focus for 2025
Invest Now, Save Later
Investing in essential Microsoft 365 IT Technical training isn’t a one-off cost - it’s an absolute minimal investment that takes one strategic step to save your organisation from far greater expenses down the line. Fast, reactive responses to IT crises can be hugely expensive - and often avoidable with investment in highly-trained teams.
Gartner estimates that organisations currently average losses of around $5,600 per minute of IT downtime, with larger data centres seeing this spike to over $9,000 per minute
Even a single hour of disruption can cost hundreds of thousands in lost productivity, wasted leadership time, and remediation expenses. Meanwhile, PwC’s 2025 Global Digital Trust Insights report reveals that the average cost of a data breach now stands at US $3.3 million.
Training your team across critical areas - including administration, endpoint security, identity management, and threat response not only reduces misconfigurations and gaps, but enables faster incident resolution. With these skills in place, just one well-trained team member could save more than the entire training investment - especially when you claim 30% off training before July 31st.
Q4 doesn’t wait for your team to catch up - it brings more workloads, audits, and cyber threats. Now (in the lull before the storm) is the moment to plug capability gaps and safeguard your Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
With four targeted courses at an exclusive 30% discount before 31 July 2025, work with Skilltec to empower your team to manage endpoints, identities, access policies, and security incidents with speed and confidence. That's why IT Managers are keen to solidify their team's skills now - rather than delay until a breach or bottleneck forces their hand...
Book your places today to map out your secure, resilient autumn.
